Danish economist warns Bangladesh about ‘climate politics’ Danish economist warns Bangladesh about ‘climate politics’

At the recently concluded UN climate summit, wealthy nations agreed to pay climate reparations to poor countries. Unfortunately, this could ultimately be a bad deal even for the recipients, if the West expects developing nations to forego fossil fuels that would help them to develop and get more resilient towards natural disasters.

Bjorn Lomborg also discussed the topic on The Journal Editorial Report with Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot.

COPENHAGEN – Imagine that over the next 70 or 80 years, a giant port city – say, Tokyo – found itself engulfed by sea levels rising as much as 15 feet or more. Millions of inhabitants would be imperiled, along with trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure. This awful prospect is exactly the sort of thing global-warming evangelists like Al Gore have in mind when they warn that we must take “large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” The rhetoric may sound extreme, but with so much hanging in the balance, surely it’s justified.

The Climate Connection 2010
Debate - What's Stopping Us?What's stopping us from taking action on climate change?
Can research from other fields help us find solutions where conventional thinking around environmentalism might have failed?
The last part of the Climate Connection explores some of the ideas we've heard throughout the series in an audience discussion with experts in the fields of economics, psychology, leadership and environmentalism. 

Participants:
Kersty Hobson
Bjorn Lomborg
Stephen Peake
Sunand Prasad